Chapter 516: Domino Effect
"Zhao Guang!" Suddenly, an angry shout sounded, which startled everyone, and when everyone saw it, it was Zhao Guang's boss Tian Mingyuan. Tian Mingyuan burst out these two words and looked at Zhao Guang viciously, obviously angry.
Zhao Guang's heart was agitated, his fists were clenched tightly, he stared at the Persian girl fiercely, and struggled to lower his head.
This situation was completely unexpected, but in one night, he thought a lot about it after all. Standing in front of him was the great general, and he must not offend him again.
“…… The general can take care of them, thank you for your humble duties! Zhao Guang said in a deep voice, looking extremely reluctant.
"You're a ...... Hehe, it seems that I am redundant today, I thought you still have some affection for her...... You are like this, it is no longer suitable to stay in my moraine, go back to the Central Plains, you still have some ability, and you may have a bright day when you arrive in the Central Plains...... It is not a sin to advocate Yanwu Xiuwen, you are just not tough enough......"
Ma Lan looked at this guy, his expression became more and more disgusted, and he didn't want to talk to him anymore, so he waved his hand lightly.
Several gendarmes pulled Zhao Guang and walked to a nearby carriage. Zhao Guang lowered his head, and every step was extremely heavy.
The Persian girl turned around and looked at Zhao Guang's back with some reluctance. She now knows what happened to this man, she is extremely sorry in her heart, and she has a lot of attachments, but she doesn't dare to say anything in front of so many Tang people. Yang Youniang patted her lightly on the shoulder and said nothing.
Zhao Guang got into the carriage, and the carriage slowly left the barracks. Tian Mingyuan and the others dispersed, and Ma Ling let out a sigh of relief and shook his head slightly.
"Such a strange fellow...... I really asked for it! ”
Yang Youniang held the hand of the Persian girl. Ying Ying smiled and said, "Husband, this is to treat others with yourself." I think that all men in the world are temperamental. All of them are affectionate and righteous, but they didn't expect such a thing. ”
Ma Ling shook his head, this kid is really hateful, if he wasn't a Tang person, he wouldn't know how many times he had died.
There have always been many people who advocate Yanwu Xiuwen, such as Chen Ziang, Di Renjie, Zong Chuke, and Yao Chong and Song Jing. Even Du Fu, who is now leading the Lantian Army in the river, also wrote that "killing is limited, and the countries have their own borders." If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more! Such a sentence. This is not wrong, there are more people who hold this proposal, and there is not more Zhao Guang.
His problem is the nature of the heart. If he is not a man in the army, it is not wrong to not be able to hold the military stick, but since he is a man in the army, how can he be so unbearable. After being demoted, the reaction was like crazy. It's even more disgusting. I thought he had no feelings for this Persian girl, and wanted him to go at ease. Judging by this kid's reaction, this is to attribute the reason for the demote to this Persian girl.
Until now, he has not reflected and does not feel that he was wrong.
If I knew that was the case, I shouldn't have come here.
A careless boy will not affect Ma Lu's mood after all. Zhao Guang was taken away by the military police, and this matter came to an end here. There are so many things in the army that we don't want to focus on such trivial matters.
The Persian maiden and the young man bid farewell to the two and went to the place where the military doctor was. Now that they have the identity of the Tang people, they can come and go freely in the barracks, without any constraints, even outside the camp. However, the two of them did not understand the language, and they did not dare to leave the barracks for the time being, and the young man's injuries were not counted, and he had to be recuperated in the barracks for a period of time.
Their fortunes took a turn for the worse, but the rest of the Persians did not. The food in the morning was still scarce and crude, the whips of the overseers were still fierce—they themselves could not be fully fed—and in the pink tent area, the beautiful Persian women got up early to clear the tents, and the recruits had business after their daily routine.
Ma Lan had no extra kindness for them, his heart was like a stone, and he would not change his way of dealing with the Persians because of what happened to the siblings. The young lady is a daughter's family, you can be kind, he is the commander of an army, killing people and slaughtering cities are common, how can there be so much compassion.
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The new city is getting taller and taller day by day in the wide valley, and with Isfahan as the center, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is also increasing day by day.
The west of the Zagros Mountains was nominally the territory of caliph Abdullah, but because Abdullah followed the advice of Mali and moved the capital from near Kufa to his hometown of Damascus, which was also the traditional capital of the Umayyad dynasty, after that, he fell into a civil war with the other two caliphs, so that a large part of the territory gradually lost control, but the nominal territory was all controlled by the local Dehgans. And now that Abdullah is dead, the titular ruler is gone, and it is completely borderless.
When Abdullah came over the mountains with an army of 20,000 people, the Dekhgans west of the Zagros Mountains knew about it, and after Abdullah was killed in battle, the news naturally spread quickly, not only the Dekhgans in the Zagros Mountains knew about it, but also the Dekhgans in the west of the Zagros Mountains knew about it.
After the news passed through, it immediately caused a series of reactions. Abdullah's Syrian legion, which had already made a name for itself in the past two years, was so vulnerable to the aliens of the East that the Ahgans were extremely shocked. It wasn't long before a large number of Dekhgans came from the mountains and made the long journey to Isfahan in a large area near the Zagros Mountains to show their submission to the Mala.
For the submission of these people, Ma Lu did not refuse to come, and accepted them all. After returning home, according to Ma Lan's request and referring to the practice of the Dekhgans in the Zagros Mountains, the Arabians and Yemenis in the territory were cleansed, and the cities and villages planted the banner of the Tang Dynasty.
Ma Luan's primary goal is to completely eliminate Hu Da's forces, and it is naturally best to be able to complete all this without bloodshed. He stayed in Isfahan to build the city just to wait for the Dekhgans west of the Zagros Mountains to come and take their work, and the development of events was completely expected by him.
If Abdullah hadn't come to die, then the army would not have been able to stay here and watch the fortification, and would have crossed the Zagros Mountains and continued to march. Abdullah is dead, and the Dehgans are naturally horrified, and with the urine nature of these ancient families who are accustomed to riding on the wall, it is inevitable that they will come to do their job.
And as time passed, the news spread farther and farther, and there was an endless stream of Dekhgans who came to serve, and the territory of the Dekhgans who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty west of the Zagros Mountains was already able to be connected, and slowly spread in all directions. There were also some Dehegans who were indecisive, and the Dehegans who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty automatically united and directly eradicated these families and divided their territories and people.
The Zagros Mountains stretch for thousands of miles, and the northern section is far away from Isfahan, and there are some areas where the Persians are not their territory, and no one has been sent to express their submission, but as long as it belongs to the Persians, it has now been planted with the battle flag of the Tang Dynasty. On both sides of this majestic mountain range, the banner of the Tang Dynasty can be seen everywhere on a large area.
Today, this wave of surrender continues to spread, even beginning to extend to the lower reaches of the two river basins. According to the news from the bulls, in the last month or so, a large number of Persian Dehgan and his escorts have rushed to the vicinity of Basra to show his submission. Now his fleet was swimming against the current, and had reached the vicinity of Kufa, and as the fleet moved north, a succession of Dehgans came to surrender every day.
These Persian Hegans, who lived in the fertile plains of Mesopotamia, did not come here to submit because they were too far away from Isfahan, but chose to be close and surrender to the small expeditionary force of Niu Xu. According to the information sent by the little calf, Kufa and even near Ctesiphon, the former capital of the Persians, a large area has become the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and the Dehgans are leading the Persians to liquidate the Arabians and Yemenis, and Niu Xu has also gathered an army composed of Persians, composed of the strongest Persian warriors, and the number has reached as many as 50,000.
This is the knock-on effect brought about by the deaths of two caliphs in a row, which is naturally a good thing for Datang. The Dekhgans continued to fall to the Tang Dynasty, and the fertile Mesopotamian Plain was becoming the territory of the Tang Dynasty little by little, and the development of things was so smooth that it would have been unimaginable a few years ago.
The Great Eclipse had become a plate of loose sand, and it was only a matter of time before this huge empire based on the Persian Dekhgans was annexed by the Tang Dynasty. Today, in the vast expanse west of the Zagros Mountains, the formerly venerable Arabians and Yemenis are bleeding, with thousands dying every day. They have been pampered for more than a hundred years, and they have no ability to resist at all, and without the protection of the caliphate, they are no match for the Persian Hegans.
Hu Da's world is shrinking rapidly, it is already in the waning mountains, and his breath is dying, and he has no power to return to heaven. Even if Mokomo was reborn, it would not change this situation.
With a large area incorporated into the territory of the Tang Dynasty, this expedition was already in the late stage. The Tang Dynasty's rule over the newly occupied lands can be said to be extremely superficial, and it still depends on the Persian Dekhgans, which is no different from the rule of the Arabians, but Ma Lan can still benefit from this rule, that is, a very considerable amount of taxes.
The Dehgans can continue to hold their territory, but they don't have to do nothing. At this stage, they have to undertake two things, one is to kill all the Arabians and Yemenis in the territory, get rid of the unrepentant Persian Mawari and his family, and the second is to pay taxes to the Tang Dynasty as a tax official appointed by the Tang Dynasty. (To be continued.) )